8-letter words containing o, s, h, i
- hostiles — Plural form of hostile.
- hostship — The property of being a host.
- hot shit — a person who behaves in a showy or conceited manner; hotshot.
- hotlines — Plural form of hotline.
- hotlists — Plural form of hotlist.
- hourlies — Plural form of hourly.
- housesit — to take care of a house or residence while the owner or occupant is temporarily away, especially by living in it.
- housings — Plural form of housing.
- housling — the growing of the climbing stem of the hop into a dense mass at the top of the poles which support it
- howlings — Plural form of howling.
- humidors — Plural form of humidor.
- humorism — (medicine, historical) The theory of the influence of the humors in the production of disease.
- humorist — a person who is skillful in the use of humor, as in writing, talking, or acting.
- hydroids — Plural form of hydroid.
- hydroski — a hydrofoil attached to a seaplane to aid in takeoffs and landings.
- hyoscine — scopolamine.
- hypnosis — an artificially induced trance state resembling sleep, characterized by heightened susceptibility to suggestion.
- hypocist — a type of juice derived from the fruit of a plant which grows from the Cistus shrub
- hyposmia — A reduced ability to smell and to detect odours.
- hystoric — Nonstandard spelling of historic.
- ice show — entertainment in which a company of ice skaters exhibit their skills to musical accompaniment.
- icehouse — a building for storing ice.
- ichorous — Classical Mythology. an ethereal fluid flowing in the veins of the gods.
- in holes — so worn as to be full of holes
- in short — having little length; not long.
- in sooth — in truth; truly
- in-house — company: internal
- inhesion — the state or fact of inhering; inherence.
- inkhorns — Plural form of inkhorn.
- insomuch — to such an extent or degree; so (usually followed by that).
- iserlohn — a city in North Rhine-Westphalia,W Germany.
- ishiguro — Kazuo [kah-zoo-oh,, kaz-oo-oh] /ˈkɑ zuˌoʊ,, ˈkæz uˌoʊ/ (Show IPA), born 1954, English novelist, born in Japan.
- isobaths — Plural form of isobath.
- isochasm — a line on a map or chart connecting points where auroras are observed with equal frequency.
- isocheim — a line on a map connecting points that have the same mean winter temperature.
- isochore — Physics.. Also, isochor. Also called isometric, isometric line. for a given substance, a curve graphing temperature against pressure, when the volume of the substance is held constant.
- isochron — A line on a diagram or map connecting points relating to the same time or equal times.
- isograph — (in the study of the geographical distribution of a dialect) a line drawn on a map to indicate areas having common linguistic characteristics.
- isohyets — Plural form of isohyet.
- isohypse — (meteorology) A line on a map connecting points of equal height of a given pressure level.
- isomorph — an organism that is isomorphic with another or others.
- isopachs — Plural form of isopach.
- isophane — (uncountable, medicine) A synthetic form of insulin used to treat diabetes.
- isophone — an isogloss marking off an area in which a particular feature of pronunciation is found
- isophote — a line on a diagram or image of a galaxy, nebula, or other celestial object joining points of equal surface brightness
- isopleth — a line drawn on a map through all points having the same numerical value, as of a population figure or geographic measurement.
- isotachs — Plural form of isotach.
- isothere — a line on a weather map or chart connecting points that have the same mean summer temperature.
- isotherm — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
- jehovist — Yahwist.